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Richard Baker (born May 29, 1974, Edinburgh) was the youngest sitting member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) when elected. A member of the Labour Party, he was elected as a list member for North East Scotland at the 2003 election.
Richard was born in Edinburgh to an Episcopalian Vicar father and English teacher mother, and is Godson to the then Episcopalian Bishop of Aberdeen. Educated at the independent St. Bees School in Cumbria and Aberdeen University.[1]
He was elected President of the National Union of Students Scotland from 1998 till 2000, having previously been the North of Scotland Area Convener for that union, and before that the Senior Vice-President (an elected, full-time sabbatical officer post) at the University of Aberdeen Students' Representative Council (now Aberdeen University Students' Association) in the academic year 1995/96.
His wife, Claire Brennan-Baker became an MSP after the 2007 election.
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 Members of the Scottish Parliament in the North East Scotland region |
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Elected in the 2007 election
SNP (8 seats), Labour (3 seats), Lib Dems (3 seats), Con (2 seats)
Constituency MSPs
Lewis Macdonald (Lab, Aberdeen Central) • Brian Adam (SNP, Aberdeen North) • Nicol Stephen (Lib Dem, Aberdeen South) • Andrew Welsh (SNP, Angus) • Stewart Stevenson (SNP, Banff and Buchan) • Shona Robison (SNP, Dundee East) • Joe Fitzpatrick (SNP, Dundee West) •Alex Salmond (SNP, Gordon) • Mike Rumbles (Lib Dem, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Additional Members
Richard Baker (Lab) • Nigel Don (SNP) • Marlyn Glen (Lab) • Alex Johnstone (Con) • Alison McInnes (Lib Dem) • Nanette Milne (Con) • Maureen Watt (SNP)
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